() vs []

[Xavier Ho]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

> It was added relatively recently, around Python 2.6 I think,
> at least partly as an oh-ok-then reaction to everyone asking:
> "how come lists have .index and .count and tuples don't?"
> and neverending "tuples-are-immutable-lists-no-they-aren't-yes-they-are"
> debate.
>
> Thanks Tim, that explains most things.

Well, I thought to throw this out for fun:

>>> listSet = set(dir(list))
>>> tupleSet = set(dir(tuple))

>>> listSet - tupleSet
{'sort', 'insert', '__reversed__', 'reverse', 'extend', '__delitem__',
'remove',
 '__setitem__', '__iadd__', 'pop', 'append', '__imul__'}

>>> tupleSet - listSet
{'__getnewargs__'}


That would explain the major differences... =]

Cheers,
Xav
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